Each year Californians use 19 billion plastic bags. Those bags end up in landfills or in the ocean.
Trash in landfills is a major contributor to greenhouse gases that cause global warming. And plastic bags in the ocean are harmful to marine life - hundreds of thousands of marine mammals die each year from ingesting plastic bags.
Plastics are also harmful to human life because they never fully break down in the environment and end up as toxins that threaten human health.
Help reduce the use of plastic bags in California. Email your state senator to support the Plastic Bag Litter Reduction Act (AB 2058).
http://action.edf.org/campaign/CA_plasticbags
Trash in landfills is a major contributor to greenhouse gases that cause global warming. And plastic bags in the ocean are harmful to marine life - hundreds of thousands of marine mammals die each year from ingesting plastic bags.
Plastics are also harmful to human life because they never fully break down in the environment and end up as toxins that threaten human health.
Help reduce the use of plastic bags in California. Email your state senator to support the Plastic Bag Litter Reduction Act (AB 2058).
http://action.edf.org/campaign/CA_plasticbags
